Update 50.usfm

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 \v 11 "You people of Babylon who plundered my chosen people,
-\q2 now you are very happy .
-\q1 You run around joyfully like  a calf in a meadow,
+\q2 now you are very happy.
+\q1 You run around joyfully like a calf in a meadow,
 \q2 and are happy like stallions are happy when they are neighing.
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-\v 12 But soon your people will be very disgraced  as a result of being conquered.
+\v 12 But soon your people will be very disgraced as a result of being conquered.
 \q2 Your country will be the most insignificant nation;
 \q2 it will be a wilderness, a dry land and a desert plain. 
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@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
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 \v 26 So, you enemies of Babylonia, come from distant lands and attack it.
 \q2 Break open the places where they store the grain,
-\q2 and pile up the rubble like  heaps of grain.
+\q2 and pile up the rubble like heaps of grain.
 \q1 Destroy everything completely;
 \q2 do not leave anything that is not destroyed.
 
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
 
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-\v 29 Summon archers  to come to attack Babylon;
+\v 29 Summon archers to come to attack Babylon;
 \q2 surround the city
 \q2 in order that no one will escape.
 \q1 Do to the people of Babylon what they have done to others ,
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
 \v 31 I, Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, say this:
 \q2 'You arrogant people,
 \q1 it is now the time;
-\q2 it is the day  when I will punish you.
+\q2 it is the day when I will punish you.
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 \v 32 Your land is full of proud people,
 \q2 but you will stumble and fall,
@@ -200,16 +200,16 @@
 \q1 'The people of Israel and Judah were oppressed;
 \q2 those who captured them guarded them carefully and would not allow them to leave Babylon.
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-\v 34 But I am strong, and I will free them.
-\q2 I am Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies;
-\q1 I will defend my people
+\v 34 But Yahweh is strong, and he will free them.
+\q2 Yahweh is the Commander of the angel armies;
+\q1 He will defend his people
 \q2 and enable them to return to their land where they will have peace,
 \q1 but the people of Babylonia will not have peace.
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-\v 35 I will send enemy soldiers carrying swords  to strike the people of Babylonia;
+\v 35 He will send enemy soldiers carrying swords to strike the people of Babylonia;
 \q2 they will strike the officials and wise men
 \q2 and all the other people who live in Babylon.
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@@ -226,8 +226,8 @@
 
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-\v 38 I will cause the streams to become dry.
-\q1 I will do all those things because the entire land of Babylonia is filled with idols,
+\v 38 Yahweh will cause the streams to become dry.
+\q1 He will do all those things because the entire land of Babylonia is filled with idols,
 \q2 and those horrible idols have caused the people who worship them to become crazy.
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@@ -236,8 +236,8 @@
 \q1 People will never live there again;
 \q2 it will be uninhabited forever .
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-\v 40 I will destroy Babylon like I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns;
-\q2 no one will ever live there again .
+\v 40 Yahweh God will destroy Babylon like he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns;
+\q2 no one will ever live there again.
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@@ -253,11 +253,11 @@
 \q2 to attack you, you people of Babylon.
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-\v 43 The king of Babylon says,
-\q1 "I have heard reports about the enemy approaching;
-\q2 so I am very frightened, with the result that I am weak.
-\q1 I am very fearful, and anguished,
-\q2 like  a woman who is about to give birth to a baby."
+\v 43 The king of Babylon heard their report,
+\q1 "The enemy is approaching."
+\q2 So he was frightened and became weak.
+\q1 Fear and anguish gripped him,
+\q2 like a woman who is about to give birth to a baby."
 
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@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
 \q1 I will quickly chase the people of Babylonia from their land.
 \q2 And then I will appoint for them a leader whom I will choose;
 \q1 I will do that because there is no one  like me who can say that what I have done is not right.
-\q2 No ruler can  oppose me.
+\q2 No ruler can oppose me.
 
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